Category: Hoppy Living

Best Books

Best Books – Food Edition!

Today I wanted to share my favorite books on food. Some of them are cookbooks and others are a bit different. They’re all books that for one reason or another I really love. In one of his books, Michael Pollan

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My February Whole30 Win

Yep, this time around I finished the Whole30!! 🙂 I’ll jump right into the improvements and good things I’ve noticed: I feel more optimistic about my health. I don’t 100% feel like I’m ‘there’, but I feel like I’m definitely

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Hoppy Living

My January Whole30 fail

My big goal for January was to complete a Whole30. I will say right off that I did not succeed. I was going strong through day 16 when everybody in the house came down with the stomach flu. I managed

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Know YOUR numbers

Some time back, I watched a YouTube video of a TED talk by Daniel Amen. He spends lots of time looking at brain scans as part of his clinical practice. I definitely recommend this video. Later, I checked out one

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Hoppy Living

Whole30 mega-post

In this post I’ll talk about what the Whole30 is all about, go over my experience with my first Whole30, provide some resources for if you’re interested in doing one, and talk about why I’m doing another one. I mentioned

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Food! And food gadgets!!

This week I am experimenting with a new sous vide cooker that I picked up on sale over cyber Monday and a FoodSaver vacuum sealer that I got on sale at Costco.  My friend Sarah stopped by a for a

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It’s still 2018

In January, it’s easy to be gung-ho about goals for the year ahead.  By this time of year, I just feel like thinking about next years goals.  Frankly, I don’t want to look at where I fell short of my

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Our memories suck

And I don’t mean that we remember crappy things, just that we can be crappy at remembering things.  There is one point from the intro to psychology class I took in college that has always stood out to me.  There

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You never know

This morning I am thinking about how we never know what somebody else is going through.  A couple of weeks ago, I was having a particularly bad day and I had stopped by The Flying Star with B for a

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